Mr. Speaker, nobody is buying what the Prime Minister is trying sell.
Let us go over what everybody knew three years ago about these serious allegations against General Vance. The Minister of National Defence knew; his chief of staff knew; the Clerk of the Privy Council knew; the deputy secretary to cabinet knew; Elder Marques, a senior adviser to the Prime Minister knew; yet the Prime Minister thinks that we should all believe him that he actually did not know.
I want to remind the Prime Minister that the deputy secretary to cabinet wrote in a March 16, 2018, briefing note that the ombudsman did not have the power to investigate sexual misconduct, so the question is this: Why did the Prime Minister not tell his defence minister to do his job and order a board of inquiry?